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While you might know your work in family planning is important, new research confirms it. Approximately 1.4 million unintended pregnancies and 600,000 abortions are averted each year in the United States each year due to family planning services.
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The Bush administration announced in August that it was introducing a new regulation on the topic of providers' "conscience" or "refusal" rights.
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Talk with your patients about fraudulent drugs sold over the Internet as treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warning letters to six U.S. companies and one foreign individual for marketing unapproved and misbranded drugs over the Internet to U.S. consumers for STD prevention and treatment.
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What is your clinic's policy when it comes to getting a signed informed consent for HIV testing? By eliminating required written consent for HIV testing at the San Francisco Department of Public Health Medical Center, the average monthly rate of HIV tests has increased by 4.38 per 1,000 patient-visits, with a 67% increase (from 8.9 to 14.9) in the monthly average number of new positive HIV tests.
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As you move through your busy day at the clinic, how are you providing important sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention messages to your patients? If caseload and budgetary restrictions are impeding your intentions, take a look at using a brief waiting room video intervention to complement your efforts.
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The Population Council, a New York City-based reproductive health research organization, and Sheldon Segal, PhD, distinguished scientist at the council, have been scheduled to receive the 2008 Prix Galien USA Pro Bono Humanum Award for their role in developing implantable hormone delivery systems.
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Rewind to 2007. A large HIV vaccine clinical trial sponsored by Merck & Co. is shuttered after an interim analysis concluded that the vaccine did not prevent infection. Fast forward to today.
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An aging workforce and a nursing shortage might seem like the perfect storm for the health care industry, but all areas of health care, including hospice organizations, have found ways to attract, retain, and make the best use of experience that comes with age.
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Do you assume that employees with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections need to be routinely excluded from work?
